關于謊言的雅思作文范文

　　Should people always tell the truth? Give your opinion and reasons to support it. 　　人們是否應該一直講真話？試述你的觀點并給出理由。

　　Honesty has always been considered to be a worthy character trait in whatever culture. Indeed, it is often thought of as the most important human value. Generally speaking, it is therefore not a good idea to tell lies.However, there may be some circumstances when telling lies might be necessary and could even be justified.

　　Providing one makes sure the lie is for the benefits of others, not one' s own, it can perhaps be justified. For example, doctors may lie to benefit their patients when they wish to speed recovery or to conceal the approach of death. The requirement of honesty also seems dwarfed when there is a greater need to shelter aging parents from heart-attack in the case of the brutal news that their son has died accidentally. To put his wife at ease and to guarantee a promise of top secrecy, a husband may claim that a life-threatening assignment is just a business trip. All these are benevolent deceptions and are understandable.

　　When you make deceptions with good intention, there is one more thing you have to be sure about-that you do it well. Lying is a great art, and you need to be very careful about it, until practice and life experience give you the confidence, elegance and precision to do it gracefully and beneficially. If you don' t, you are almost certainly going to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before.Many a young person has ruined his reputation permanently through a single clumsy and ill-told lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training.

　　Integrity is desirable, but the opinion that we ought not to lie at all, of course, is putting it rather more strongly than necessary. I maintain that we can practice this art, if it is in others' interest, and if you know how to use it well.Other wise, you had better be honest rather than risking your integrity and credibility by playing tricks. The more important thing is not to think about teling lies, or slide into those mechanical and untruthful habits of thought.

　　在任何一種文化中，誠實都是一種美德。實際上，它被認為是重要的一種品質?？偟恼f來，說謊并不好。說謊只有在不得不說的時候才說，而且應該有正當的理由。

　　如果一個人確認謊言對別人有益而不是對自己有益，這就是正當的。例如，醫(yī)生可能對自己的病人說謊，這是為了病人好。因為醫(yī)生希望能夠加速病人的恢復或者挽救病人的生命。當患有心臟病的老人的兒子意外喪生時，為了病人的需要就不得不隱瞞殘酷的真相。為了使妻子放心，并維護高機密，丈夫不得不把執(zhí)行有生命危險的任務說成是一次商務外出。這些都是善意的謊言，而且可以理解。

　　如果是善意的謊言，你需要確信你能夠做得很好。說謊是一門藝術，你需要非常小心。只有在你的實踐經驗和生活閱歷都足夠的情況下你才能夠很好地，準確無誤地這樣做。如果不是，你會自食其果。如果謊言被揭穿，你在光天化日之下就不能再像以前那樣生活了。很多年輕人都是因為一句簡單的并不高明的謊言徹底毀了自己的名聲，這是經驗不夠的結果。

　　正直是理想化的，但是認為“不能說謊”這種觀點是走極端了。如果對他人有利，而你也知道如何運用好，那么我們可以采用善意的謊言。否則你還是保持正直，不要玩火。更重要的是不要思考謊言，也不要陷入那些機械的虛偽的思考習慣中。